http://bluemagic.info/blog/


Blue Magic Capital adding more Decred

Maid runs into a similar mass adoption issue: ie accessing the network through a proprietary desktop browser, from what I understand

Over 50% of web traffic is mobile, so this type of "decentralized internet" has major accessibility issues (if it's ever actually released as well)


IPFS hashing, and especially leveraging human-readable domain names directly alongside IPFS hashing, is indistinguishable to the end-user: other than the fact that it is faster and more fault-tolerant than regular web-serving (as in, it is not subject to the whims of one server-center failing or being DDOSed- and it doesn't clog bandwidth over spans of potentially thousands of miles between end user and a server farm)

Also, having direct-monetization built in via blockchain could potentially be the much-needed replacement for the broken ad-monetization scheme that fuels the web today

Cheers

https://www.shiftnrg.org/theteam/


You can access their githubs and such here


Talk to the teammembers directly if you have any questions by signing up to the Ryver Chat, the team is available every day as they develop Shift/Phantom

https://www.shiftnrg.org/contact/

Quoteception:
"Shift's focus is decentralized web hosting and Lisk's focus is dapps and sidechains, although they're based on the same codebase they could each do both… the teams have different focuses and different goals. Shift and Lisk have contributed to each other to make the codebase the better in the past. … Shift is focused on decentralized hosting and is not a direct competitor with Eth. Also a big differentiation is the use of IPFS web hosting/domain name registration, which I don't think has been done before in crypto."

Good point you raise ManonTheMoon

I just asked one of the devs in Ryver and he said the following:

"The main problem with dynamic content is security related. You would want to use passwords for database connections which are stored inside the web pages. IPFS is designed to be open. You can view all files in a web root, so everyone can view your password.
IPFS is working on a database implementation, maybe you should read a bit more about that subject "

See you up there soon, ManontheMoon

Quote from Dev Ralf on Ryver:

"Hi, you can't really compare the development of Maid with Shift. But you might be able to compare the results soon. Many coins/devs offer ideas, but they are way to optimistic about getting the work actually done.

I think we are running a realistic project here. Building a bridge to combine today's best web technologies into a product with endless possibilities:


IPFS is an amazing tool for p2p hosting and browsing, and so much more. Take a look at IPLD for example, great future ahead.
LISK has build a great blockchain codebase with dpos consensus, plus the ability to create sidechains for dapps. Grown really stable the last couple of months.


So a small team of 4 to 6 people here work on Shift on a daily basis. But many many more devs building the technologies behind it. 1+1=3
We couldn't do it without you, our 150 delegates and 560+ community members."


Exciting future ahead